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[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
can i ask what different versions of the emulator come with what game? i have read there are 3 different versions, but i mean what games use the different versions, or the same version of the emulator?

say for example if i wanted to use my syphon filter backup on the crash version of the emulator, would it work? are they using the same version of the emulator on the market?
[Xperia Play Android Development] SanGai:
Oh, haha thanks, i didn't even know about that one.

Hmm, can't get that one to autostart when the slider is opened (even tho the option to do that is set).
[Xperia Play Android Development] Scorbion:
I used syphon filter as my base game, but when I start any game it asks me for license check then give me buy or cancel options. kinda weird, although I own this game.

any tips :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] gwaine:
Same thing here
[Xperia Play Android Development] Zoop57:
Quick question... Do the analogue pads work for anyone when enabled and the correct control scheme is set? Currently spyro 2 works and is amazing but crash bandicoot 2 doesn't seem to want to allow analogue pads.
[Xperia Play Android Development] woogers:
Works for me in Spyro 1.
[Xperia Play Android Development] kupo5131:
The only game I can get the analogue sticks to work with is Resident Evil 3, but the sticks don't work properly. If anyone can get Gran Turismo 2 working with the analogue sticks I'd LOVE to know how you did it.
[Xperia Play Android Development] bubblegumballoon:
the sticks do work properly but the sensitivity is weird. I noticed it alot in crash banicoot, if I wanted my character to run I would have to put my thumb right up to top of the touch pad so it was nearly coming off so he would run forward, if my thumb was still mostly on the touch pad he would only walk.
[Xperia Play Android Development] subcu1ture:
It is funny because the touch pads are even sensitive outside of the circle that they are given. Can be a tad annoying at times.
[Xperia Play Android Development] bubblegumballoon:
that might be because its not two separate touch pads but a single touch pad made to look like two haha.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Zoop57:
Which crash bandicoot was it?

I have spyro 2 and sheep, dog n wolf working with analogue. I KNOW. Crash 2 supports it as theres a calibration option in the pause menu but the game wont read them I'll try dumping my own disk and report back
[Xperia Play Android Development] metcard:
Has anyone tried Wipeout 2097? I done it and all seems to have gone well but the game freezes at the loading screen (after the intro). :(
[Xperia Play Android Development] kupo5131:
What I meant by not working with RE3 is that when you press upwards on the analogue stick the menu opens... Down on the stick and Jill aims.
[Xperia Play Android Development] bubblegumballoon:
hmm wierd. does that game actually support analog though? I know if you enable it with game that dont support it you get strange results.
[Xperia Play Android Development] kupo5131:
I think it does, as far as I remember RE1 had a duelshock version, RE2 supported duelshock as standard so RE3 should support duelshock.
[Xperia Play Android Development] bubblegumballoon:
Ok well the only thing I can think might be wrong is your controller setup in the emulator itself.

In the emulator there should be a controller section somewhere, go there and make sure analog is enabled and then go to assign buttons and make sure its set to either type 5 or type 6 (depends on wether you need to to use L1 and R1 or R2 and L2 more)
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
could anyone plase please help me? im in the uk and have just bought syphon filter from the markt, and i cant for the life of me find the apk in root. it is installed on phone and ive looked in system/app and its not there, and looked in/data and theres nothing there either :S
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
it's called something like com.sony.ncXa...... in /data/app
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
i dont have any folders in /data on root, its an empty folder. (i am using root explorer)

this is driving me crazy! why cant i find sphyon filter apk!! it is version 1.0.2!!!
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
You must be rooted.
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
your joking :( i just bought it for the emulator. i cant root as im on 2.3.3. so there is no other way??
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
Do you have unlocked/unlockable bootloader?
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
i dont have an unlocked bootloader, but i thought every xperia play was boot loader unlockable? ive just been reading about unlocking the bootloader and downgrading to 2.3.2, but i think it is too much hassle installing and losing all my apps and data, plus any risks there may be from flashing
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
There are absolutely no risks from flashing on Sony Ericsson Xperia phones.

Flash only system image from 2.3.2 and root it.
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
Only factory unlocked devices (And now verizon models) can currently unlock the bootloader, If you do unlock your bootloader, flashing carries very little risk, as long as common sence is used :rolleyes: yeah you may loose all your data unlocking the bootloader, but it comes with many more benifits, custom roms, custom kernels, Overclock, mods & tweaks and also the ability to use a custom recovery and the awsome nandroid backup feature ;) an easy way to see if your bootloader is unlockable is to power off the device, when off connect it to your pc while holding the seach button, If the LED on the power button goes blue..... Your good to go :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
ok so the light on top of my play turned blue. if i was o unlock the boot loader and downgrade to 2.3.2, root, would i thn be able to update to 2.3.3 and keep root? (i know you cant do OTA update with bootloader unlock)
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
this may sound stupid, but when you say flash only system image, you dont mean flash only the /system folder do you??? im thinking not lol
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
Yes, take only system.sin and loader.sin from ftf package and make new flash bundle which you'll flash.
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
With an unlocked bootloader there is no need to downgrade, you can just flash a rooted 2.3.3 system image, and now blagus (the genius) has come up with a way to relock the bootloader, you can relock and OTA whenever you want :D the only thing you will loose permanently are the DRM certificates, so Track ID and the Facebook like button in the stock music player will never work again if you unlock your bootloader :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
Just flash this image, its a pre rooted stock 2.3.3 image :D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1098736
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
How can he flash if he doesn't have unlocked BL?

We're trying to preserve userdata here so he can grab Syphon apk from /data.
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
Sorry :eek: I thought he had decided to unlock his bootloader from his previous post :p I will leave it in you capable hands blagus as it dinner time and im starving :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] m3dteam:
To anyone who wants to get the zpak without using their Xperia play, here is what to do:

1-unpak the game apk with apktool, link: http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/downloads/list

2-in the unapked directory open: res\values\strings.xml

3-copy the value of "content_url"

4- paste in any browser and you should get the zpak

this way, you wont ever need an xperia play
[Xperia Play Android Development] m3dteam:
Sry, double posted
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
I was just thinking, I don't think I mind too much about losing /data. I could get my paid for syphon filter apk back for free right? Because it is linked to my google account?

If so, then my steps would be:

1. Back up what I want/can from root

2. Boot loader unlock

3. Install your 2.3.3 r800i non rooted uk fw (because of different baseband)

4. install your rooted 2.3.3 r800i fw

5. Restore everything I can

Making sure I can get my paid apps back for free is my main concern lol
[Xperia Play Android Development] m3dteam:
Ok I will repeat myself one last time:

To anyone who wants to get the zpak without using their Xperia play, here is what to do:

1-unpak the game apk with apktool, link: http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/downloads/list

2-in the unapked directory open: res\values\strings.xml

3-copy the value of "content_url"

4- paste in any browser and you should get the zpak

this way, you wont ever need an xperia play

so htchd2rules you don't need root
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
Yes but he needs apk, not zpak.
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
Yes I have zpak, its in folder on my memory stick
[Xperia Play Android Development] m3dteam:
then that is easy:

1- move the game to sdcard

2- connect your phone to a pc, and choose "Connect phone memory card"

3- look at D:\.android_secure and you will find the apk there

One thing to note: if you try to brows .android_secure on your phone it will always be empty, even with root, that is why you need a pc

EDIT: it seems to be encrypted ^^
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
Ahhhhhh yes I saw that earlier, but the file was a different type, acc or something I think
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
The packags is called pkg.zip and it is in the folder /mnt/asec/com.sony.playstation..

It doesn't work in.my experience, it force closes the first time and then it checks for.the license any time you.run the game
[Xperia Play Android Development] m3dteam:
And I am guessing that you cannot get the game from /system/app/ without root?

that is weird because I can get it from there even without root!!
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
Ahh yes I have the apk now, thank you. But your saying it doesn't work with the tool?

Any chance you think of editing the xml file to remove the check? I have no idea about this I have just seen something in a xml about license check
[Xperia Play Android Development] m3dteam:
Oh, try the one that is in /system/app

it is the one I used and it works
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
There is no syphon filter apk in my system/app folder, and its not there in another name. the apk was in mnt/asec/com.sony.....
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
You cant even read /system/ without root :rolleyes: if your not rooted /system will appear as an empty folder :p
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
He means the crash bandicot .apk from /system/app/, the syphon filter .apk comes with sony's v3 emulator, this one has added security and dosent work with this conversion tool, it will just say its a pirate copy :p
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
I'm not rooted and I can see whats in /system folder with any root explorer
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
I saw that other people had success with it and that it works better than the crash version of the emulator
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Just noticed that Everybody's Golf stores its APK file in /data/app like any other application and unlike Syphon Filter. Still, it doesn't work with conversions either.
[Xperia Play Android Development] zero_1_2:
What version of syphon filter works with the conversion tool? v1.0.2 or v1.0.1
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
the version im using is 1.0.2 and it doesnt work. i get the message that the crc doesnt match when using the converter tool, but it still continues, but when i put it on the phone and install it checks for a licence and fails, asking me to re-download.

there must be some way to remove or bypass this check...
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
As i said in another thread, there is no way XDA is going to let us sit here and think of ways to bypass sony's piracy protection ..... Just because we want to use it for legal reasons, dosent mean everyone will :p
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
ok i understand. i was just thinking though what if we moved the emulator part of the syphon filter apk into the crash apk...
[Xperia Play Android Development] bubblegumballoon:
Its the emulator part thats the problem. older versions of the emulator didnt have a licence check they only checked if you were using an xperia play, and its still easy to trick it into thinking any other phone is an xperia play but without a physical gamepad and incomplete touch controls theres not really much point. :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] m3dteam:
you know, if you open zpak file, then the emulator is there, it is called ps1_rom.bin

maybe you can move it from one game to another
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
There are two possibilities for getting the release 3 emulator without license.

1) patch the license check from android/classes.dex. This is borderline "cracking apk", which is basically piracy

2) the hard way is to extract the decrypted libdefault.so from a licensed game. I can't do this because I don't own the game and the market won't allow me to buy it. Then patch it to make the old libjava-activity.so to run it. This is much harder then option 1 though.

Either way, I can't do anything because I don't own the game. If android marketplace allows gifting, someone could order it for me, but I don't think they do.
[Xperia Play Android Development] m3dteam:
why don't you use market enabler? http://code.google.com/p/market-enabler/
[Xperia Play Android Development] AndroHero:
can we not use droidwall to block the app phoning home :confused:
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
I don't have a sim card, so they don't even show up.
[Xperia Play Android Development] keytor69:
ps1_rom.bin isnt the emulator, its the psx bios that the emulator loads, the emulator files are in the \lib\armeabi directory.
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
Can someone tell me when their marketplace PSX games was last updated? It seems like Sony has obfuscated all the code. (Hidden all the method/class names, changed some functions up). Also, what happens if you use the title id from the game you bought, and just replace the ZPAK (not install a new apk) with a generated one, will it load?

I'm curious if the emulator is updated with better compatibility because they took the time to hide more stuff.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
The games were definitely updated in August, that is, after you described the whole scheme in your blog.
[Xperia Play Android Development] keytor69:
medieval was updated 3/4 days ago, core apk update then a 330mb download.
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
Ok, I tried market enabler and manually using setprops. I got access to the market now, but when I try to buy the app, it says "This item cannot be installed in your country." Is that supposed to happen? Any suggestions on what to do next? Is there any way someone can use my google account to buy the app just so I can load and extract the emulator and see what changed?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Scorbion:
which country and service provider did u emulate?? try emulating countries that support psx games on the market like UK or Germany then from application manager clear the market cache before u open it

oh and btw the is an app called market enabler codes which shows u almost all providers in all countries
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
That's exactly what I did. I tried Germany, France, UK, Canada, and two other US providers. All of them either don't show the buy button at all, or when you press it, it shows that "not in your country" message. It may be because I'm on wifi though, but I don't have a data plan.
[Xperia Play Android Development] :
yifanlu, just wanted to say amazing work again, thank you.

In regards to the emulator versions, I am of the opinion that all the releases are the same basic emulator. Why? If you compile all of the games released on the Market, EG; Syphon Filter, Wild Arms, Medievil, etc, they all play FLAWLESSLY. All emulators will have problems with certain games, thats a given. Also, on Market, there are games like Syphon Filter that have versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, and 1.0.2! :O

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sony.playstation.NCUA94240_0

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sony.playstation.NCEA01910_0

For example.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Scorbion:
check your PM
[Xperia Play Android Development] ashergray:
I believe this is your best bet for getting out of country games on android market.

the UA string for the R800i is

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.3; en-uk; SonyEricssonR800i Build/3.0.E.2.89) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

and just use a UK or Germany Proxy with your web browser on your desktop and you should be set.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Scorbion:
I guess you'r right, I was able to buy psx games from the market but now with this new market I cant even find them :S .. kinda weird really.
[Xperia Play Android Development] rizenreincarna:
Any one have trouble loading image(game icon)?

i cannot convert games unless i do not enter game icons.any specific types(i know its .png) or sizes it support?

help me plz.
[Xperia Play Android Development] jassired:
The Image should be .png and size 170 x 170
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
I thought the image size was supposed to be 75x75? thats what I've been using anyway
[Xperia Play Android Development] edokassiah:
can i extract the crash ban files without being rooted? if so how do i go about doing it

really dont wanna root right now for specific reasons
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
170x170 works too

Enviado desde mi Corvus5 SP1 usando Tapatalk
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
You don't need root, just a root explorer
[Xperia Play Android Development] JasonKnight:
I am starting to have this problem even with using .PNG and 170x170

Everything I convert now has this problem, Even ones I converted before.
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
Delete your description I'm sure it contains invalid characters.
[Xperia Play Android Development] JasonKnight:
tried that too, still does it. (was easier just copying WikiPedia descriptions ^_^

tried adding underscores to spaces, still does it, changed size to 75x75 still does it. everything worked 3 days ago, same set up doesn't now.
[Xperia Play Android Development] GetPatriotized:
Is this easy? Convert ISO to APK?
[Xperia Play Android Development] JasonKnight:
http://i54.tinypic.com/28s6iyd.jpg

even tried it without an icon, still cant generate the APK ....

this is getting more and more confusing... worked then it didnt work, then it worked again now it doesnt work...

Had to delete the converter and reinstall it to make it work again, apparently something got messed up in it on its own and refused to work.
[Xperia Play Android Development] bubblegumballoon:
Ok firstly get rid of the "&" from the name of the game, it might be an invalid character.

secondly the title ID is wrong, change it to NCXA00000_1 but replaces all the zeros with any other numbers (example NCXA12345_1)

Thirdly make sure you have the newest version of PSXperia, this would most likely be the problem, older versions needed you to put aapk in your system path to compile the apk.

if your still confused then try and follow along my tutorial it might help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaZuKZQoBwA
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
I looked at your screen again. Your name contains a special character. Try removing that.
[Xperia Play Android Development] dsswoosh:
Your directory is wrong.

"\. \" will definately not work.

Change directory to something simple and i bet it will work.
[Xperia Play Android Development] TLRtheory:
*Sigh*... the process seems to go through properly, but attempting to install any APK gives me

"Parse error

There is a problem parsing the package."
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
Try making a package with all settings default. Don't change name, titleid, description, etc.
[Xperia Play Android Development] hairdewx:
Which file(s) is the native emulator?
[Xperia Play Android Development] htchd2rules:
I had this problem when I created the apk with java 7 installed, I un installed and installed java 6 and then it worked
[Xperia Play Android Development] edokassiah:
i thought u needed root to use root explorer

hmm guess it doesnt matter since im not trying to edit anything just copy

just asking ahead of tiime since i will receive my phone on tuesday i cant waaait lol

also guys check out wirefly.com they have the xperia play for verzion new contract for free sorry for the advertisement but just wanted to share if anyone was interested
[Xperia Play Android Development] TLRtheory:
*Sigh* That worked... but I like getting OCD about description details :(

...oh well, I have Tactics Ogre - Let Us Cling Together on my Xperia PLAY... can't particularly stay mad :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
Well, you just can't have weird symbols. I don't know which ones work and which ones don't and I'm sure there's a proper way of escaping them, but you'll have to figure that one out.
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
I've been looking at the way multidisks work, and I THINK I sort of get the format. Note the following information is all speculation and has not been confirmed. All I know is that the number of disks is stored in image_ps_toc.bin and is at offset 0x8 to 0xC, but when I change just that, the emulator crashes at "SetDiskNum"

Image TOC Layout:

0x4 byte header

0x4 byte total size of all disk images

0x4 byte number of disks

---------

for each disk:

0x4 byte padding

0x4 byte disk number

0x4 byte number of entries

Image.PS Layout:

0x4 byte header

0x4 byte unknown flags 1

0x4 byte unknown flags 2

0x4 byte disk number

0x4 byte padding

data

repeat for each disk
[Xperia Play Android Development] JasonKnight:
that is what the program does automatically.

I have been having to uninstall the program and reinstall it every 2-4 games converted cause it stops working.
[Xperia Play Android Development] TLRtheory:
lol it really doesn't matter, this is amazing work either way! I'll deal with it.

Hey, I got a simple request... any way you could add a checkbox that, if checked, inserts the following line

<meta-data android:name="xperiaplayoptimized_content" android:resource="@drawable/icon" />

in the AndroidManifest.xml before

</application>

so that it also shows up in the Xperia PLAY launcher?
[Xperia Play Android Development] HearthC0re:
Good idea!
[Xperia Play Android Development] crimsonnight:
Would someone who know's what they're doing be able to sticky a guide (and keep it up to date) on exactly how this works as I've found it hard to keep up to date with this thread? @.@
[Xperia Play Android Development] yifanlu:
I'll think about it. But in the meantime, whatever you do to the files in /data is copied to the apk.

You just download the program and run it.
[Xperia Play Android Development] TLRtheory:
/satisfied :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] nscxp2005:
Does anybody know how to fix the 'Cannot Build APK' error?

I am running the tool on Ubuntu Linux 10.10

All the best,

NSCXP2005
[Xperia Play Android Development] TLRtheory:
Sweet victory!

I would've done an actual screenshot... but apparently there's NOT A SINGLE PIECE of screenshot software out there for non-rooted devices -_-
[Xperia Play Android Development] nscxp2005:
Does anybody know how to fix the "Cannot Build APK" issue?

Thanks

NSCXP2005
[Xperia Play Android Development] Rogue Leader:
Why would this be needed? Every game I built (even the ones that don't work) shows in the launcher every time???
[Xperia Play Android Development] TLRtheory:
For me, they only showed up in the PlayStation Pocket App (I could have an outdated version?). I simply wanted them to show up in the Xperia PLAY game launcher too, as pictured in my previous post.
[Xperia Play Android Development] subcu1ture:
Yeah this is the same for me too TLRtheory